The winners of the 2025 Sustainable Beauty Awards have been announced. About 130 senior executives from the beauty industry attended the awards reception in Paris. The Sustainable Beauty Awards celebrate brands, companies, and innovators who are advancing the sustainability agenda through ground-breaking products, ingredients, packaging, or initiatives. The judging panel has selected the following winners… […]

The German footwear company Birkenstock has expanded its line of Care Essentials to include natural skincare products. The new products are hand and body washes and lotions in Relaxing and Balancing variants. Certified COSMOS Natural, the line reflects Birkenstock’s positioning around function, simplicity, and sustainability. The packaging has FSC-certified boxes and bottles made with recycled […]

The UK campaign group Plastic Planet has made its PlasticFree global database of sustainable materials for use in cosmetics, personal care and other industries free-to-access. The PlasticFree platform is described as a trusted source of information that serves organisations across 37 countries to help designers, packagers and companies to think about material use and the different options available […]

The French natural cosmetics company Le Rouge Français has opened its first stand-alone store in Paris. Located at 16 rue de Turenne in the Marais district, the store is a retail space and immersive showroom. Founded in 2019 by Élodie Carpentier and Salem Ghezaili, the company has certified organic colour cosmetics.   The vegan formulations […]

The European Parliament is diluting the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), whilst the implementation of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) is likely to be delayed by another 12 months. The European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs has voted to raise the reporting thresholds for the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the CSDDD, reducing the […]